Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Bangladesh Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus said Thursday that several of his firms were forcibly taken over, weeks after his conviction in a criminal case his supporters say was politically motivated. Yunus, 83, is credited with lifting millions out of poverty with his pioneering microfinance bank but has earn...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh will send back Myanmar border guards and other officials who fled civil war in their country by air, an official in the Foreign Ministry told Anadolu. Clashes between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army, an ethnic group, have intensified in recent months. Over 260 Myanmar officials, including bord...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh summoned Myanmar’s top envoy in Dhaka concerning the killing of two people by mortar shells fired from across the border amid armed fighting between the regime and rebel groups. The Foreign Ministry summoned U. Aung Kyaw Moe to strongly protest the killings and events that took place on the Myanm...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Internally displaced Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar’s Rakhine state have fled to Bangladesh in a new wave of forced migration in search of safety, refuge, and food as clashes between military junta forces and rebel groups escalate. Many have crossed into the Rohingya refugee camp in southeastern Cox’s Bazar,...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – In a letter to Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, 12 US senators have urged an end to the “persistent harassment” of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who is battling a string of graft cases. Earlier this month, a court handed down a six-month prison sentence to Yunus and three of his colleagues [&helli...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh on Sunday expressed its support to South Africa in its case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for violating the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. Bangladesh said it supports South Africa’s call, as a State Party to the Genocide Convention, for provisional ...
Beijing, China – – AFP China has congratulated Bangladesh’s ruling party for its victory in Sunday’s elections, after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina secured a fifth term in a vote marked by an opposition boycott and mass arrests. “China congratulates Bangladesh on successfully holding its national election as schedu...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday dismissed the opposition’s criticism of the country’s general election as “illegitimate” as she celebrated securing her fifth term in power. Hasina has presided over breakneck economic growth in a country once beset by grinding pover...
Dhaka, Bangladesh — AFP Bangladesh votes Sunday in an election guaranteed to give Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina her fifth term in office, after a boycott by opposition parties whose ranks have been decimated by mass arrests. Hasina’s ruling Awami League has presided over exceptional growth in a country once beset by grinding poverty...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Hundreds of lawyers in Bangladesh have boycotted courts as part of the “non-cooperation movement” called by the opposition parties. Bangladesh will hold the 12th parliamentary elections on January 7. The opposition parties led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) announced boycotting the Sunday electio...
